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March 12, 2006
Too Much Kale?
Communication is something I've been working on lately, and I think I've been making progress. However, even the best of relationships suffer from the occasional miscommunication. This weekend, MR and I had a classic misunderstanding.
It all started when I headed out to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's on Saturday morning. I left at 7:30 to get there at 8, just as WF opens. I had the list that MR had prepared, and I was ready to go through the greens and other produce, carefully selecting the freshest for our week of salads. I could have sworn that MR indicated that I should buy dino kale X 2 and regular kale X 2. So I bought two bunches of each.
Oooops. He meant only one bunch of each kale, and now I can't find the list to prove that he wrote X 2. He claims he never would have done that, and in the interest of spending the next 965 years happily in love, I will drop the subject. But in the meantime, I have a lot of kale to use, and MR doesn't like cooked kale. So today for our lunch I am making a Greek salad with eggwhite feta and kale kale kale.
Over a bed of dino kale and green kale, I will spread tomatoes, red peppers, black olives. Then I will top it with "eggwhite feta," a creature I create out of cubed eggwhites soaked and marinated in red wine vinegar, olive oil and oregano. To finish, I will top the entire salad with a cup of nonfat plain organic yogurt mixed with four tablespoons of salsa for a creamy spicy salsa dressing. Yum! Dessert will be apples with hazelnut oil and a few hazelnuts.
Tonight we are going out to dinner for the first time. Since MR doesn't eat anything that isn't calorie controlled, we've always enjoyed our own cooking at home. But tonight he is collecting one of his birthday presents, which was a gift certificate to Applebee's, home of the calorie controlled menu. Want to guess what he eats? Look at the nutrition info on the Weight Watchers menu and see if you can figure it out.
Posted by april at March 12, 2006 11:08 AM
Comments
Ah, yes. Miscommunication with MR. You're not alone in encountering this problem. Some of us have been having the experience for a very, very long time. Your response was probably the only sane course of action, unless you're willing argue until the cows come home. Deep breath..... MoMR. :-)
Posted by: Judith at March 12, 2006 11:12 AM
GRILLED SHRIMP SKEWER SALAD. I've had it and thought it was quite good.
Posted by: Connie at March 12, 2006 3:15 PM
I don't think he'll eat anything on the list. I don't really care what he eats anyway. I am more interested in what you'll choose. I would also choose the shrimp skewer salad. By the way, I am only now finding out that Judith, who once took me for a typical middleeasterner in her narrow mind and made a comment about no wonder america is having problems with the middle east, is the mom of MR. She didn't even know that Turkey is not in the middle east for god's sake! I am sorry for him for having such an ignorant person as a mom.
Posted by: zeynep at March 12, 2006 5:03 PM
I am so disappointed that MR won't eat cooked kale. My very favorite way to eat it is to chop it up a little, throw it in a wok with a 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil and a clove or two of mashed garlic, cook it just for a couple of minutes until wilted and add a dash of tabasco and a splash of vinegar. It's really good and the oil and vinegar help you absorb all the nutrients.
Posted by: Little MR at March 12, 2006 6:13 PM
All:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Zeynep, in what geopolitical or cultural block would you place Turkey? It's a predominantly Muslim country located on the Asian continent; itborders Iraq and Iran, with its Western border east of that of Egypt; and it is the seat of the former Ottoman Empire. That seems quite sufficient to locate it there. And if you look at any standard reference here, at least, you'll see a Middle Eastern attribution to be standard; see eg:
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Middle East defines a cultural area, so it does not have precise borders. The most common and highly arbitrary definition includes: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, Iran (Persia), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
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[Goggle search:
define:middle east
... yields:
# large region that covers parts of northern Africa, southwestern Asia, and southeastern Europe consisting of Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, *Turkey*, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
www.futureharvest.org/about/glossary.shtml
# the countries of Southwest Asia & North Africa -- usually considered as including the countries extending from Libya on the West to Afghanistan on the East
www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/dictionary/MiddleEast.htm
# (Sometimes referred to as the Near East, encompasses all the countries of Asia south of the former Soviet Union and west of Pakistan and Egypt. The total population of these nations is more than 200 million.
www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp
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[Turkey maps placed by the University of Texas here:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east.html
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[Turkey news listed on Middle East Report Online Subject Index:
http://www.merip.org/mero/subj_index.html
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[Turkey news and analysis listed on The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) countries page:
http://www.memri.org/countries.html
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[Turkey maps and news listed here:
http://www.mideastweb.org/maps.htm
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Love is the law, love under will.
-MR
Posted by: MR at March 13, 2006 6:28 AM